American mortar crew in action near the Rhine, 1945
"Getting across the Rhine wasn't all there was to it. There was the little matter of establishing a beachhead. We threw our mortars at them and everything else we had untill they finally gave away."
- Date
- 1945
- Photographer / author
- Braun, USA / US Office of War Information
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,735 × 2,147 pixels
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